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Art Gensler Passes Away at 85

VMS

In the late 1990s, Gensler agreed to design the first 100 Apple store locations. Apple Insider says Art would design a store and Jobs would “rip the plans apart.”. After Gensler was contracted by Microsoft to design a handful of its brick-and-mortar locations, the firm was “fired” by Apple, but after Jobs’ death, the firm was re-hired.

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Does the Historic Makeover of an Iconic Paris Retailer Chart a Path for Department Stores’ Revival?

Retail TouchPoints

Until 2005 that is, when the doors of La Samaritaine were summarily shuttered. The short answer is that LVMH’s plan to reincarnate the iconic but failing department store as a luxury destination met with a bit of resistance (this is France, after all). stake and wanted a plan more in line with “their founders’ mission.”.

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From frumpy to fashionable: the triumphant turnaround of M&S Clothing

Retail Gazette

Price had previously worked at M&S as trading director from 2005 until 2012 but left because it “was drifting in the wrong direction”. Instead visual merchandising has transformed the store, with dynamic displays using neon-lit areas to spotlight customer favourites within its clothing department. What next?

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